The Collective's Team Homepage for the World's Largest Trivia Contest

Welcome to The Collective!

"Resistance is futile. Your biological distinctiveness and trivia knowledge will be added to our own."

Welcome to The Collective's Trivia Team website. We're an up and coming team that participates in the "World's Largest Trivia Contest" held each April in Stevens Point, WI.

Mission Statement:

To use creativity, technology, hard work and determination to WIN the World's Largest Trivia Contest.

We're already getting ready for Trivia 39 (April 11th-13th, 2008), it starts in exactly

Our team name in 2008 was:

The Collective: Don't
Phase Me Bro

Feel free to look around, and make sure you come back as these pages will be updated very often.

UPDATES:

11-25-2007: Been a really long time since this website has been updated...too long! made some changes to the history page and a few other spots. Looking to update plenty more pages in the very near future. We're back baby!
11-3-2006: Added/updated the team scores for ALL trivia teams from 2000 through 2006. Very purty formatting, enjoy.
2-17-2006: We choose what our team name will be this year...The Collective: King Cube. We should have lots of fun with this theme. Lots of ideas for the shirts and float!
8-9-2005: I posted a couple of articles that members of the Collective were featured in for this year's contest. Check out the media section to see them.
7-24-2005: We finally got around to putting up all our pictures from Trivia 2005. This includes pictures of registration, the parade, and tons of pictures from the contest. Hope you enjoy them. Here they are! Also, we have finally gotten around to posting up pictures all most of our team members here. Soon to come will be bios on everyone...
7-18-2005: We had our first ever summer picnic this year at Iverson Park. Bocce Ball, Polish Horseshoes and so much more! Check out the pictures here.
4-12-2005: Wow, what a great time we had in this year's trivia contest. The merger between COJ and us went better than expected and we emerged from this contest with the best finish that either of our teams has ever had! Lots of pictures and comments will be posted soon. We've been super busy!
3-6-2005: The trivia movie has been announced! Its... Martin & Orloff. In other news...The Collective and Circle of Jerks have joined forces to further our conquest of the trivia universe. COJ brings years of experience to The Collective and we look forward to playing trivia with them. They are as passionate about trivia as we are, so its the perfect union. Resistance is futile!!!
12-18-2004: Updated the links page to include some new teams and also the 2004 rankings for any teams listed.
4-21-2004: We finished 82nd this year! That's a our best finish ever! Added a ton of pictures from the parade and during the contest this year! Check them out!
4-14-2004: More news coverage for members of The Collective added under the media section. Also added even more pictures of our float as the construction continues.
4-14-2004: Updated some photos from 2002 and 2003 and added some articles from the Portage County Gazette and Stevens Point Journal from 2003. Also added an article from 4-13-2004 from the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.
4-13-2004: The Collective was in TWO different articles in the Stevens Point Journal today!!! Check both of them out in the archives section under media coverage. Also added to the site are pictures from our 2004 Trivia registration campout.
4-12-2004: The Collective was recognized for being the 1st team to register for Trivia this year! Ben Scheer showed at at 12:00 noon (27 hours BEFORE registration opened) to secure our spot at the front of the line. Jason Bilbrey showed up a couple times during the day and arrived for the long term around 8:30pm (8.5 hours after Ben had arrived). We setup camp (chairs, a table and warm clothes) and survived the night victorious! Check out the pictures in our archives.
4-12-2004: The Collective was featured for a team profile in the Stevens Point Journal. Check out the article in our archives under media coverage.
4-11-2004: Weekend #3 of float building has arrived and yet more pictures of our snail-paced progress on the float are online for your viewing pleasure.
4-4-2004: Added quite a few more pictures of float building which occurred this weekend. More to come next weekend.
3-30-2004: Construction of the 2004 float has begun. Check out the Archives section for photos. More to come as each stage of the float is completed.
3-22-2004: Added more links to the "Other Links" section.
3-11-2004: Added a link to our team's T-Shirts from previous years under the archives section.
8-11-2003: Updated the "Other Links" section with new links to other teams and added last year's rankings for each team.
4-27-2003: More pictures added to 2003 Photos page.
4-16-2003: History and Photo pages updated. Many more updates coming in the near future. Stay tuned...
4-14-2003: This year's contest is done, and we finished 121st this year with 3515 points... Not where we thought we'd end up, but we'll keep at it for next year. The planning begins already...
1-15-2003: LOTS of updates. Rehauled all the menus and added new sections for your perusal. Enjoy, more to come very soon....
1-08-2003: Completely redid the "Contest" link. Modified the photos section. More photos coming soon. Also a section with bios on various team members.
4-26-2002: Added LOTS of photos of the taken during the 2002 contest.
4-22-2002: We placed 91st this year! Yee haw.
4-17-2002: Added lots of photos of us building this year's 2002 Trivia Parade float.
4-4-2002: Updated the team history page with more about last years contest. Added information to the "Contest" link about what Trivia is and how it works.